Creating Agentic AI Solutions with Microsoft Foundry

Course details

In this course, join Microsoft RD and MVP Rodrigo Díaz Concha as he shows you how to design, build, and manage agentic AI solutions using Microsoft Foundry. Learn how to combine powerful tools, and agentic workflows to create intelligent, goal-driven systems. Along the way, Rodrigo covers the essential skills required to create multiagent systems using the Microsoft Agent Framework.

This course is designed for cloud-native developers, AI engineers, and solution architects who want to build intelligent, autonomous agents using Microsoft Foundry and the Foundry Agent Service. It’s also useful for technical decision-makers and product managers interested in understanding how agentic AI can enhance products and workflows using Microsoft's AI stack.

Learning objectives
Design and build agentic AI solutions using the Microsoft Foundry platform.
Integrate and configure Foundry Tools to extend AI agent capabilities.
Create agents using the Microsoft Agent Framework.
Design and build agentic workflows using the Foundry Agent Service.
Monitor your agents using metrics and tracing.

Concepts

Introduction

Foundry - The agentic solution

Microsoft Foundry - Core Concepts and Architecture

Creating your first Microsoft Foundry resource and project using the Foundry Portal
Creating a Foundry resource using the Azure portal
Creating your first agent in Foundry Agent Service
Choosing the right endpoint in Foundry Agent Service

Tools for Agents in Foundry Agent Service

Using the Web search tool
Using the File search tool
Using the OpenAPI tool
Using MCP servers as tools
Using the Code Interpreter tool
Using Foundry Tools

Hosting Agents in Foundry Agent Service

Creating your first agent using the Microsoft Agent Framework
Using Azure Credential authentication in the Microsoft Agent Framework agent
Using the Foundry SDK to create a Microsoft Agent Framework agent
Invoking an existing prompt agent using Microsoft Agent Framework
Understanding hosted agents in Microsoft Foundry
Creating a hosted agent using the Microsoft Agent Framework and the azd tool
Deploying and testing a hosted agent
Inspecting the code and redeploying the hosted agent
Renaming and adding local tools to a hosted agent using the Microsoft Agent Framework
Using an agent as a tool in another agent with the Microsoft Agent Framework

Multiagent Workflows in Microsoft Foundry

Creating the intake agent
Creating the diagnostic agent
Creating the scheduling agent
Create the summary agent
Creating the clinic workflow and an initial entry
Connecting the intake agent
Adding branching logic to invoke the diagnostic agent
Adding the resolution branch and invoking the summary and scheduling agents
Testing the workflow

Observability and Evaluation in Microsoft Foundry

Monitoring agent behavior with Application Insights
Evaluating agent metrics
Creating another evaluation with a different judge model

Conclusion

Next steps